Plan B

After all the dramas of the past few weeks, it was with some delight that we headed back to the van where we have enjoyed relaxing and listening to the waves crash onto the beach at Uretiti. The weather has been fine and pleasantly warm for this time of the year and with little or no wind which has made sitting out in the sun rather a rather pleasant activity.

Walking down to the beachParked up in the sun

﻿Looking south (top) and north along the beach.
We are now onto Plan B, or is that C or even D now with Roy. We had a good meeting with the cardiologist who is happy with the way he is progressing on medication to keep everything ticking over nicely (pun intended). Then we had a very long session with the Urologist/Oncologist and have come up with a plan.

Roy is now NOT having major surgery, apparently after playing around with the heart they prefer patients to have a 6 month stand down period before major surgery. So instead there is plan B. Now he has had his first hormone injection yesterday, with another one due in 3 months. This will reduce the size of the prostate as well as the cancer then at the end of the second three month period, the surgeon will probably do a TURP (rebore) of the prostate as this surgery is less invasive and does not require a full anaesthetic. Then he will have radiation treatment on the remaining cancer. All in all much less invasive and with better outcomes in terms of possible nerve damage of full surgical removal.

This has tied in nicely with our plans to head overseas, the planets are all aligning beautifully. The second injection is due just a couple of days before our planned departure at the end of September and we can be away as planned with the next procedure not due until after our return in mid January. Finally things are looking up.

Meanwhile, we are expecting a visitor later this week. We are very excited about her arrival, so much so, there is a ticker tape parade due along Auckland waterfront just as she arrives!!! Can’t say that we don’t pull out all the stops……..